MOSCOW, Russia -- Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has stepped into the fray on the eve of the vote on a new national anthem. The State Duma is to vote on Friday on President Vladimir Putin ...

Russian President Boris Yeltsin gestures while addressing the a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in this June 17, ... for a decision to revive the old Soviet anthem, and again in 2004, ...

The Russian parliament, or Duma, is expected to vote on the matter Friday. Former President Boris Yeltsin chose a melody by the 19th century composer Mikhail Glinka as the post-Soviet anthem, but ...

Moscow, 8 December 2000 (RFE/RL) -- The Soviet Union's national anthem for almost 50 years, before being abolished by President Boris Yeltsin shortly after the collapse of communism, is poised to ...

MOSCOW -- Boris Yeltsin was laid to rest Wednesday alongside writers, composers and artists in a funeral that was laden with the religious trappings given to Russia's czars but which also broke ...

Symbolism: Reversion to Soviet-era tune, approved by lawmakers, was proposed by Putin as a healing move. Critics call it an insult to the victims of repression. A New-Old Russian Anthem OKd - Los ...

The latest reincarnation of the anthem, which replaces a 19th century tune composed by Mikhail Glinka and adopted by presidential decree of former President Boris Yeltsin, will be performed ...

Anatoly Chubais, once a Kremlin insider and former President Boris Yeltsin's closest aide, has warned Putin that he is "making a mistake" by returning the old anthem.

Russia bid a solemn farewell Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin, its first post-Soviet leader, in a funeral presided over by some two dozen white-robed priests and a crowd of dignitaries including ...

Boris N. Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became the first freely elected leader of Russia and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

Russian lawmakers today overwhelmingly approved the Soviet anthem as Russia’s national hymn — a move praised by some as a gesture of reconciliation and denounced by others as a symbolic ...